காவலன்' செயலிக்கு சபாஷ்! பெண்கள் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டுகோள்

Updated : டிச 08, 2019 02:14 | Added : டிச 08, 2019 00:43



சென்னை : தமிழக காவல் துறை அறிமுகம் செய்துள்ள, 'காவலன்' செயலியால், சென்னையில் முதல் பலன் கிடைத்துள்ளது. வீட்டில் தனியாக இருந்த பெண்ணிடம், அத்துமீறி நடக்க முயன்ற சம்பவத்தில், 'காவலன்' செயலியில் பெறப்பட்ட புகாரில், ஐந்து நிமிடத்தில் சம்பவ இடத்திற்கு சென்ற போலீசார், இருவரை கைது செய்துள்ளனர். 'இந்த செயலியை, அனைத்து பெண்களும் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டும்' என, டி.ஜி.பி., திரிபாதி வேண்டுகோள் விடுத்துள்ளார்.

தெலுங்கானா மாநிலம், ஷம்ஷாபாத் பகுதியைச் சேர்ந்த, 26 வயது பெண் மருத்துவரை, லாரி தொழிலாளர்கள் கடத்தி சென்று, பாலியல் பலாத்காரம் செய்தனர். பின், பெண் மருத்துவரை கொலை செய்து, தீ வைத்து எரித்து தப்பினர். இதில், குற்றஞ்சாட்டப்பட்ட, லாரி தொழிலாளர்கள் முகமது ஆரீப், 26, ஜொலு நவீன், 20, ஜொலு சிவா, 20, சென்னகேசவலு, 20 ஆகியோரை, சைபராபாத் போலீசார் சுட்டுக் கொன்றனர்.

விழிப்புணர்வு


இந்த சம்பவத்தை தொடர்ந்து, தமிழகத்தில் பெண்களின் பாதுகாப்பை உறுதி செய்ய, காவல் துறை, பல்வேறு விழிப்புணர்வு நிகழ்ச்சிகளை நடத்தி வருகிறது. தமிழகத்தில் ஏற்கனவே பயன்பாட்டில் உள்ள, 'காவலன்' மொபைல்போன் செயலி குறித்து, பெண்கள், முதியோர், சிறுவர்கள், மாற்றுத் திறனாளிகள் போன்றவர்களிடம் விழிப்புணர்வு ஏற்படுத்த வேண்டும் என, டி.ஜி.பி., திரிபாதி, அனைத்து போலீஸ் கமிஷனர்கள், மாவட்ட எஸ்.பி.,க்களுக்கு, சுற்றறிக்கை அனுப்பியிருந்தார்.

பாதுகாப்பு

அதன்படி, சென்னை போலீஸ் கமிஷனர் ஏ.கே.விஸ்வநாதன், நேற்று முன்தினம், பெண்களிடம், 'காவலன்' செயலி குறித்த விழிப்புணர்வை ஏற்படுத்தினார். பெண்களின் பாதுகாப்பை உறுதி செய்ய, தமிழகம் முழுவதும், மாவட்ட எஸ்.பி.,க்கள், விழிப்புணர்வு நிகழ்ச்சிகளை நடத்தி வருகின்றனர். இதன் பயனாக, 'காவலன்' செயலியை, ஒரு வாரத்தில், 1.10 லட்சம் பேர், புதிதாக பதிவிறக்கம் செய்துள்ளனர்.

இது குறித்து, போலீஸ் அதிகாரிகள் கூறியதாவது: தமிழகத்தில், 'காவலன்' செயலியை, நான்கு லட்சம் பேர் பயன்படுத்தி வந்தனர். தற்போது ஏற்பட்டுள்ள விழிப்புணர்வு காரணமாக, ஒரு வாரத்தில் மேலும், 1.10 லட்சம் பேர், பதிவிறக்கம் செய்துள்ளனர்.

மொபைல் போன் வாங்கினால் வெங்காயம் 1 கிலோ இலவசம்

Added : டிச 08, 2019 00:17

தஞ்சாவூர்: பட்டுக்கோட்டையில், 'மொபைல்போன் வாங்கினால், 1 கிலோ வெங்காயம் இலவசம்' என, விற்பனை கடையில் அறிவிப்பு வெளியிட்டுள்ளனர்.

வெங்காயம் விலை, 200 ரூபாயை தொட்டதால், பொதுமக்கள் பெரிதும் சிரமப்பட்டு வருகின்றனர்.வெங்காயத்தை, தங்க நகை போல் அணிந்து கொள்வது, வெங்காய வயலுக்கு இரவில் காவல் இருப்பது போன்ற, 'மீம்ஸ்'கள், சமூக வலைதளங்களில் வேகமாக பரவி வருகின்றன. தஞ்சாவூர் மாவட்டம், பட்டுக்கோட்டை அடுத்த செம்பாளூர் கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர், சரவணகுமார், 35. இவர், எட்டு ஆண்டுகளாக, பட்டுக்கோட்டை தலையாரி தெருவில், மொபைல் போன் விற்பனை கடை நடத்தி வருகிறார்.இந்த கடையில், 'மொபைல் போன் வாங்கினால், 1 கிலோ வெங்காயம் இலவசம்' என, விளம்பரம் செய்துள்ளனர்.

இது குறித்து, சரவணகுமார் கூறுகையில், ''இந்த விளம்பரத்திற்கு, மக்களிடம் நல்ல வரவேற்பு கிடைத்துள்ளது. ஒரு நாளுக்கு, மூன்று மொபைல்போன் விற்பனையான நிலையில், வெங்காயம் இலவசம் அறிவிப்புக்கு பின், எட்டு போன்கள் விற்பனையாகின்றன,'' என்றார்.

No handcuffing of accused except under magistrate’s orders, says SC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:08.12.2019

Though Supreme Court has time and against disapproved of handcuffing of undertrial prisoners and convicts, terming it an inhuman practice, it has provided for exceptions that could have been relevant in the case of four men who were gunned down by the police in Hyderabad.

The apex court in 1995 in ‘Citizens For Democracy Vs State Of Assam’ passed a slew of directions on procedures to be followed while handcuffing a prisoner. Holding minimal freedom of movement, which even a detainee is entitled to under Article 19, cannot be cut down by application of handcuffs or other hoops, the court issued directions for police and jail authorities on handcuffing an accused. The court held that police and jail authorities, on their own, shall have no authority to direct handcuffing of any inmate of a jail or during transit from one jail to another or from jail to court and back. This direction, however, may not have adequately considered the violence that sometimes breaks out in police vans among undertrials or convicts.

In a direction relevant to the Hyderabad case, the court said where police or jail authorities have a well-grounded basis for drawing a strong inference that a prisoner is likely to jump bail or break out of custody, the prisoner be produced before a magistrate and a prayer for handcuffing be made. In Hyderabad case, since all four suspects were being taken to the crime spot, such permission might have been sought.

In other circumstances, as where a person arrested by the police, is produced before the magistrate and remand — judicial or non-judicial — is given, there shall be no handcuffing unless special orders are obtained from the magistrate. Similarly, a person arrested in the execution of an arrest warrant must not be handcuffed unless prior permission has been taken from the magistrate.

The Supreme Court has held handcuffs must be the last refuge, not the routine regimen.

Full report on www.toi.in

INHUMAN PRACTICE

Woman gets property back from son who deserted her 16 yrs ago

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Krishnagiri:08.12.2019

A 76-year-old woman, who was abandoned by her son after she registered her property to his name, has got back her property after the revenue divisional officer cancelled the transaction and returned a share of the property back to her. Earlier, the woman, C Muniammal of Angampatty village, had on December 5 approached Krishnagiri tahsildar Munusamy, seeking a monthly dole of ₹1,000 under the old-age pension scheme.

Muniammal’s son Murugan works as an office assistant at a block development office in Mathur union, and his wife Sakthi is a headmistress of a panchayat union elementary school in Olaipatty panchayat.

During inquiry, the tahsildar found Muniammal had seven acres and a house in Angampatty village and registered the same to her son’s name when her husband Chinnasamy was alive. “He died of ailment in 2003. After that, her son and daughter-in-law started to torture her. They threw her out of the house 16 years back,” the tahsildar said.

Muniammal then rented a thatched house in the same village and started working as a coolie. The tahsildar forwarded the report and Muniammal’s application to revenue divisional officer Deivanayaki, who held an inquiry with the woman’s son and wife on Friday.

“I have advised them to take care of Muniammal and provide her ₹10,000 a month to meet her expenses,” Deivanayaki said.

Neet scam: Two more detained

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 08.12.2019

CB-CID sleuths have detained two people including an LIC agent in connection with the Neet impersonation scam.

Dharmapuri-based LIC agent Murugan and his friend Viswanath, who were nabbed from a hideout in Bengaluru during the search for agent Mohammad Rafi, have been detained in Theni for questioning, police said.

Inquiries revealed that Murugan had helped one MBBS aspirant get admission to a medical college, engaging an impersonator to write Neet on her behalf. The CB-CID had arrested the girl’s mother earlier.

Since the Neet impersonation scam was busted on September 26, the CB-CID arrested at least six parents of MBBS students, five students and two agents so far. One of the students was recently granted anticipatory bail.

Investigation of the sensational case found at least 19 instances where students admitted to medical college were different from those who appeared for Neet. Officers from CBCID, who are investigating the case, said that some of the students had appointed more than one person to write the test from different centres on their behalf. “They used the mark sheet with the highest score for admission,” said a senior police officer. Police booked them under the IPC Sections 120 (B) (conspiracy), 419 (punishment forcheating), 420 (cheating).

410 schools with less than five students may be shut
Students To Be Admitted To Nearby Institutions

Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

Chennai:08.12.2019

The school education department has in this academic year, following a statewide enumeration, identified 410 schools with less than five students and is likely to close them and merge them with nearby institutions next year.

As per the department’s direction, chief educational officers have identified alternate schools for the 2,000-odd students. “They will be provided with transport facilities to the nearest schools in the next academic year. Providing transport incur less expenditure than running these schools,” an official said.

The government is also considering to temporarily close these schools and open when there are enough students. “A decision of merging these schools will be taken only in next academic year,” another official said.

School education minister K A Sengottaiyan recently said the government was spending more than ₹10 lakh each on schools with less than five students and ordered chief education officers to collect details.

While TN has 24,321 government primary schools, the number of schools with less than 10 students rose from 1,238 last year to 1,531 this year. This academic year, 50 schools with nil students were converted into libraries.

“Declining child birth and lack of basic amenities like classrooms and teachers are major factors for reducing students’ strength. Further, studying in private schools have become a status symbol,” a government school teacher said.

A city school headmaster called for a long term plan to develop government schools. “If the government provides a proper school in the neighbourhood with five class rooms, five subject teachers and non-teaching staff, functioning toilet, playground and transportation, student strength will improve. They should think of developing potential schools like a five-year plan,” he said.

Another headmaster said the government should stop freebies and ensure schools with more students have at least five teachers. “Parents are not willing to admit children in two-teacher or one teacher schools.”

“It has become a vicious circle where the government reduces teachers for lack of student strength and students migrate for lack of teachers...,” said educationist Prince Gajendrababu. “Instead of merger of schools, the government should evolve a plan to attract more students. They should try out a model by providing all facilities in one government school per block.”

MORAL POLICING

Why can’t unmarried couple share a hotel room, asks high court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:08.12.2019

When a live-in relationship between two adults is not deemed an offence, how can the occupation of a hotel room by an unmarried couple be considered a crime?

Posing this question to the Coimbatore district administration which sealed a service apartment in the city after finding that an unmarried couple had occupied a room and consumed liquor there, the Madras high court ordered the apartment de-sealed two days. The district officials had swooped on the apartment after video clips showing the facility being used by unmarried people went viral.

Justice M S Ramesh, terming the act of the district authorities extreme and illegal, said: “Apparently, in view of the viral news spread in the social and other media, the extreme step of sealing the premises was taken. When a specific question was put to officials about the illegality in permitting unmarried couples to stay in hotel rooms, they had no answer. Apparently, there are no laws or regulations forbearing unmarried persons of opposite sex from occupying hotel rooms as guests. While live-inrelationship of two adults is not deemed to be an offence, terming the occupation of hotel room by an unmarried couple, will not attract a criminal offence. That being so, the extreme step of sealing the premises on the ground that an unmarried couple were occupying the premises, is totally illegal in the absence of any law prohibiting the same.”

As for the contention that it was sealed because there were liquor bottles in the room though the premises did not possess the licence to serve or sell liquor, Justice Ramesh said, “If the guests had consumed the liquor brought by themselves, I am unable to comprehend how it can be considered impermissible.”

The Tamil Nadu Liquor (Possession for Personal Consumption) Rules, 1996 and the amended version, Justice Ramesh said, entitled a person to possess 4.5 litres each of Indian Made Foreign Spirit and Indian Made Foreign Liquor, 7.8 litres of beer and 9 litres of wine at a given point of time.

Justice Ramesh also pointed out that the service apartment management was not put on notice prior to sealing the premises nor was it asked to give any explanation with regard to the contemplated sealing.